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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The deformed babies in the Cocktail Bar were all born between what dates?
(a) January 1 and March 1.
(b) April 4 through May 21.
(c) December 10 and December 17.
(d) January 1 and December 31.

2. What ritual is held among the primitives as a protection against deformed babies?
(a) Halloween.
(b) Belial's Feast.
(c) The Devil's Dance.
(d) The Purification Ceremonies.

3. The Chief figure declares that he is operating under what type of government?
(a) A Republic.
(b) A Dictatorship.
(c) A Democracy.
(d) An Autocratic.

4. What does the Arch Vicar tell Dr. Poole about his scientist friends?
(a) They are all dead from gamma radiation.
(b) They were malnourished and fell to a pack of wolves.
(c) They are coming for him now, and he must make a choice as to where to go.
(d) They were wounded trying to find him, and there will be no rescue.

5. How do the primitives explain the men's propensity to hit women?
(a) Women are possessed by Belial.
(b) Women deserve beatings for their inherent wickedness.
(c) Women need to be toughened up to survive in the wilderness.
(d) Men are possessed by Belial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason that sex has become seasonal for the primitive community?

2. What is the occupation of Bob Briggs?

3. In the human condition, what does fear NOT cast out, according to the narrator?

4. Who orders all the mothers to the "place of shame"?

5. What is the reader told about how the "Ape and Essence" script appears in the novel?

(see the answer key)

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